diffusive
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The second type is known as diffusive transport, which occurs when motion is dominated by random collisions.
From Science Daily • Jan. 7, 2026
While silicon systems rely on electrons to perform computations, Yang's diffusive memristors use the motion of atoms instead, creating a process that more closely resembles how biological neurons transmit information.
From Science Daily • Nov. 5, 2025
It was more of a diffusive process where the leadership faltered.
From Slate • Mar. 6, 2021
Aciman, a famous Proustian, is clearly interested in the diffusive action of time and the heartaches of temps perdu.
From Washington Post • Oct. 29, 2019
The short, imperfect navigation of the Greeks, along the shores and among the islands of their inland sea, made colonization rather a diffusive overflow, than an adventurous transplanting of their people.
From Calvert and Penn Or the Growth of Civil and Religious Liberty in America, as Disclosed in the Planting of Maryland and Pennsylvania by Mayer, Brantz
Vocabulary lists containing diffusive
"The Federalist No. 10," Vocabulary from the argument
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